Global, regional, and national burdens of atrial fibrillation/flutter from 1990 to 2019: An age-period-cohort analysis using the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study

Due to global population aging, atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF/AFL) has become the most prevalent persistent type of arrhythmia worldwide and a leading cause of systemic embolism, particularly ischemic stroke, heart failure, and other cardiovascular illness [1,2], resulting in direct and indirect family and societal costs. The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) study 2017 reported on the […]